Summary

Music is used as a communication tool by human beings as well as in nature.

One of the most beautiful examples is street vendors, marketers, sellers. They
call their customers with different melodies, almost creating their own brands
with their voices. In this workshop, we will experience the most practical form
of elemental music, starting with the street vendors of Istanbul 100 years ago.

 Workshop: SOUNDS OF STREET VENDORS

İdeas

• İt’s a kind of elemental music and elemental way of life. Simple, only buy what you want ☺
• İt connects people with music
• İt has a specific target to use sound and music (to sell something)
• İt’s open to create very original and personalised styles of music ( vendor’s melodies are like a brand)
• İt’s local and at the same time universal

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Street Vendors of İstanbul (Ottoman)

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Sound of İstanbul street vendors (Ottoman)

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 İllustrated books of Street vendors

• Les Cri de Paris – Antoine Truquet (1545)

• The Cries of the city of London- Marcellus Laroon (1733)
• Cris de Paris dessines d’apres nature / Michel Poisson (1774)

İnspired composers
• Clement Jannequin (1485/1558)
• Thomas Weelkes (1576/1623)
• Orlando Gibbons (1583/1623)
• Luciano Berio (1925/2003)

yağ satarım bal satarım

ustam ölmüş ben satarım

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yağ satarım bal satarım

ölmüş
ustam ben satarım

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 yağ satarım bal satarım ustam ölmüş ben satarım
SLOW

Sola bak Sağa bak Dön arkana İyi bak

FAST

Look left Look right Turn back and You will find

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Yağ satarım Bal satarım (game song)

kür

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 Game Instructions

• The children sit in a circle except for the one who's "It". She goes
around the outside of the circle holding a handkerchief while everyone
sings the song. Finally, she drops the handkerchief behind a child. That
child has to pick up the handkerchief and chase the one who's "It"
around the circle until the one who's "It" takes the 2nd child's spot. If
the one who's "It" is caught first, she continues being "It".

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The links to the videos which I used

• Street vendors of İstanbul (Ottoman time)

• Le Cris de Paris / Clement Janequin

• The Street Cries of London

• Game: Yağ satarım bal satarım

 Thank you for joining

my workshop ☺

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